“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.” LongSelfLastsNamesLinesResultsKnowledgeLearningLimitsDiversityOrganizationManagementResponseBottomProductivityEvolveCorporationsConsistentDucksEngineeringEfficiencyVariationRefinedDisruptivePayoffOperating SystemsStreamlining Author:Richard Pascale
“In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.” LongFactsRunningEconomicMovementActivityIncreaseResponseRateFirmBordersLong RunsTradingStrengthening Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.” IfsWorldWantLongWaitingLong TimePatienceResponsePatientIdleBe Patient Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveLongStillsMomentsWould BeDiesNextI BelieveBornLinesSinVisionFiguresBirthResponseRatePopulationExcessAccurateTennyson Author:Charles Babbage